The nominations for the 2012 BAFTA In Scotland awards were announced yesterday. Alongside the glamour and household names in the film and actor categories, the far more vital and fascinating games category nominees were named. They are, in no particular order: Bad Hotel - Lucky Frame iBomber Defense Pacific - Cobra Golf Squared - Dynamo Games Bad Hotel is, we all know, a tower …
Daley Thompson’s Decathlon Is BACK For iOS & Android
If you're a dedicated retro-gamer, or if you're just old, you'll be familiar with the classic sports title, Daley Thompson's Decathlon. Originally publisher in 1984 (by Ocean, fact fans...), the game offered players the chance to compete in the ten Decathlon events as the multiply-medalled and incredibly idolised Daley Thompson. The game was famous as …
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Wrestling Manager Updated – WTF?
The team at Serious Parody are living up to their name. The serious part anyway. The company has just released the latest major update to its popular Wrestling Manager game. Version 1.0.8 is now in open BETA, while the company updates and tweaks the latest additions, based on player feedback. A full public release will …
Game Maker Now Available On STEAM
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a young game designer, in possession of a good idea, tends to do nothing with it. Ever. Except in the pub, when they moan to friends that they can't get funding, that games don't make money these days and that now they've mentioned it aloud, it will be …
Introducing – Proper QA
There's a new company in Scotland's growing firmament of gaming wonder. It's not a development studio, but a company offering quality assurance and testing. Proper QA is based in Edinburgh and is the branchild of CEO Nick Barrett. QA is one of those aspects of development which is often overlooked, or which many people outside …
Twiddly Tilts & Sprouts For Five
Ladies and gentlemen, please say hello to a new member of the Scottishgames social collective of awesomeness. Twiddly is an Edinburgh-based development studio, creating games for mobile. Their first game, Tilt & Sprout has just been updated to support Apple's sleek, shiny and geo-bewildered iPhone 5. They're also the people behind our rather lovely new …
Tag Nabs Amazon Exec Launches Hotel GB For Four
Last week was a busy week for Dundee's Tag Games. A gentlemen by the name of Graham Chambers has just been appointed as the company's new head of global sales. Graham has years of experience within the entertainment sector, most recently as Amazon UK's head of Games & Software. He was also the managing director …
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You Are In A Maze Of Twisty Little Passages, GCH, FDG, UF, Inc Mnstrs, Ghsts, Zmbs VGC
Interactive Fiction is alive and well and being written in Scotland. Yes, the purest, most literate and graphically rich form of gaming has not died and been buried in an unmarked, unregarded grave, unmourned, dismissed and forgotten. If you're not 'au fait' (literally 'with brains') with Interactive Fiction, it's the old fashioned kind of game …
Mental MonstAR Motoring Outplay Augments iPhone Fun
Augmented Reality is one of those technologies which tends to polarise opinion. Many people scoff and shun the technology as irrelevant to 'proper' games and label it awkward, inconvenient and nothing more than a jumped up QR code. You friendly neighbourhood Scottishgames.net tends more towards the optimistic and impressed side of things. When Augmented Reality …
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Booty Quest – Out Now For iOS And Android
Avast, shipmates. A tot o' rum all round and cease yer keel-hauling of the cabin boy. A shiny new version of Outplay's popular treasure matchin' Facebook title, Booty Quest, has hove into view for them new Apple and Android gadgets and now you can shiver your timbers on the go. OK, enough piratism. Booty Quest was …
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